The leaders of the world's main economies - and also the most polluting ones - have reached an agreement in which they propose to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. Diplomatic sources from various European countries present agree that the language in the official communiqué is more ambitious than has been attempted to date with members such as China, Russia or India and that it is a preparatory signal for the imminent COP 26 summit on climate change. in Glasgow. "It is a step in the right direction, it raises the level of ambition of the international community in the fight against the climate emergency," says a source from Moncloa.
"You have to bring the ceiling from two degrees to 1.5. Why? Because science says so," says the host of the event, Italian Prime Minister
Mario Draghi
.
Meeting at the G20 in Rome and after a lengthy negotiation, the leaders' assistants managed to agree on Sunday to go a little further than in the 2015 Paris agreement. Club members account for about 80% of global emissions.
The President of the Government,
Pedro Sánchez
, has had a certain role in the G20 session dedicated to climate change when he was invited, together with Canadian
Justin Trudeau
, to address the rest of the attendees about his policies to face the problem.
In the statement outlined to close the Italian summit, the commitment is to
"keep the average temperature rise well below 2 degrees and continue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels
." And members stress that achieving this goal "will require
significant
and effective
measures and commitments
from all countries." Spanish diplomatic sources point out that the language of the statement has been especially laborious, because it had previously been rejected at a meeting of environment ministers also organized by the Italian presidency.
The agreement also includes stopping financing coal-fired power plant projects abroad.
"We will end international public financing of new coal-fired power plants by the end of 2021."
It omits to set a
national
decarbonisation objective to
show that only a minimum agreement on climate change has been possible.
The agreement paves the way for the COP26 climate conference, which is "the last and best hope to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, which is the most ambitious goal of the Paris agreement," says the president of this conference, the British
Alok Sharma
al inaugurate it in Scotland.
Sharma, like a large number of UN experts, defends that the 1.5 degree threshold is what prevents extreme weather events such as droughts, storms and floods from multiplying.
To achieve this, they recommend that net emissions be zero in 2050.
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